Garden Plants

 

Researching suitable garden plants

 

When choosing plants for a chosen garden or landscape we have to keep certain things in mind such as plants purpose and the time of year.

 

Some plants and what they're suitable for:

 

Lavender  

 

Lavender is the ultimate multi-purpose plant: a horticultural Swiss army knife of a shrub, combining flavour and fragrance, elegant looks and drought-beating characteristics – a top-10 favourite in gardens all over the country. Falling for that old gardening cliché – the lavender-lined path smelling sweetly as you brush past

 

GARDENIAS

Gardenias are famed to be the sweet smelling flowering plants because of their aromatic fragrance.  These can be best placed in a garden of flowers or put in your patio landscapes.  They can tolerate sunlight exposure but it has to be shaded one in a while.

 Daffodils

 

 

 

  A bulbous European plant which typically bears bright yellow flowers with a long trumpet-shaped centre. A genus of predominantly spring perennial plants. Sprouting from an onionlike bulb, most daffodils feature a sturdy stem that supports a flower or flowers composed of the cup or corolla, surrounded by six petals or perianth segments. Daffodils bloom in early, mid or late spring, but each plant flowers only once a year. 

 

 

Pumpkin

 

 

 

Pumpkins are more used for Halloween decoration than for eating, and winter squashes are hardly known at all for this purpose. But they are an interesting and tasty addition to the standard range of vegetables and offer many uses in cookery. Winter squashes, and pumpkins are quite easy to grow and need no great expertise for success.

 

 

 

Geranium

 Geraniums have been a gardener's favourite for well over a century. The old-fashioned standard for beds, borders, and containers, geranium is still one of the most popular plants today. Traditional bedding types love hot weather and hold up well to dry conditions; many offer colourful foliage.

Though most geraniums are grown as annuals. Bring them indoors to overwinter, if you like, then replant outdoors in spring. Or they can bloom indoors all year long if they get enough light.